1600's-1700's- the New World vs. the Old World

  • Mestizos

    At this time, the beginning of the 1600's, the Mestizos made a large population group in america.
  • England in the New World

    England was ready to embark on its dominance and power in the new world
  • Peace

    King James makes peace with Spain
  • Virginia Company

    Inspired from Cortes and the Spanish conquests. Found gold and silver, glass, iron, furs, tar, and anything else the country could supply.
  • Three ships

    Englishmen boarded three ships- the Susan Constant, the godspeed, and the discovery. They sailed up the James River and landed in present day Virginia.
  • Champlain establishes...

    Quebec
  • Arriving

    Four hundred settlers arrived in the New World.
  • Hudson Claims

    New Netherland
  • Santa Fe

    Was the first permanent European settlement in the southwest.
  • A husband for Pocahontas

    Colony reorganized and Pocahontas was married to John Rolfe.
  • Surviving

    After a few years 80% of the English immigrants had already died.
  • Tobacco

    Rolfe crossed tobacco strains from Trinidad and Guiana and planted tobacco.
  • Shipping to the old world

    Colony in Virginia the colony sent the first shipment of tobacco to England.
  • House of Burgesses

    Estabished by the Virginia Company. Included a limmited, white, landowners.
  • Slaves brought to the New World

    A Dutch Slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginian colonists. This marks the southern slaves birth in the New World.
  • Pilgrims find...

    Plymouth
  • Trouble in Jamestown

    During the Dawn of tobaccos's boom, Jamestown was still struggling.
  • first royal colony

    Virginia becomes a royal colony
  • A New Company?

    The company formed New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
  • immigration

    Great Immigration to New England
  • Charles I role at Chesapeake Bay

    Charles I set a tract of about 12 million acres of land at the northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay aside for a second colony in America.
  • Moving Day!

    Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake
  • Arrived!

    Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake, arriving in Maryland in March 1634
  • Period: to

    Pequot War (1636-1637)

  • Armed contingent? Coming?

    Armed contingent of English Puritans from Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut colonies trekked into Indian country in territory claimed by New England.
  • English Revolution

    Forced settlers in America to find a new place in the empire of America.
  • Period: to

    Governor Kieft’s War (1641–1645)

  • Colonies so far

    During this time, no permanent British North American colony was more than thirty-five years old. The Crown and various proprietors controlled most of the colonies.
  • England becomes a republic

    England became a republic and protectorate under Oliver Cromwell.
  • Charles's execution

    Challenged American neutrality
  • Parliment responds with an act

    Leveled an economic embargo on the rebelling colonies, forcing them to accept Parliament’s authority, but acknowledged England still has majority authority
  • Period: to

    Two Esopus Wars (1659–1663).

  • New laws for everyone

    Marks a turning point for black men and women in English colonies. New laws gave legal sanction to the enslavement of people of African descent for life.
  • The children of a enslaved women

    A Virginia Law stated that an enslaved women;s children inherited the "condition" of their mother; other colonies soon passed similar status.
  • Granted the colony a royal charter!

    Charles II granted the colony a royal charter establishing the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • The Duke of York granted what?!

    Duke of York granted the area between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to two English noblemen.
  • New Haven?

    In 1665, New Haven was absorbed into Connecticut, but its singular religious tradition endured with the creation of Yale College.
  • Found Charles Town!!

    Three ships of colonists from Barbados arrived at the mouth of the Ashley River, where they founded Charles Town
  • Period: to

    King Charles II role with the New World

    Kind Charles II gripped his control over North America and the West Indies in the creation of the colonies in the New World.
  • Uprising in England

    Led by King Philip.
  • John Sassamon

    Winter of 1675, John Sassamon, was found under the ice of a pond. Killed by King Philip, the three murders were found guilty of murder and executed.
  • established the ...

    Lord of Trade
  • Period: to

    King Philip's War (1675–1676)

    Brought a decisive end to Indian power in New England.
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Occurred a year after King Philip lead the uprising, in Virginia.
  • Sante Fe expansion in 1680

    only 3,000 thousands colonist called Spanish New Mexico home.
  • Pueblo REVOLT

  • Declaration of Josepe

    Spanish speaking indian
  • An Invasion!

    Led by a protestant, William of Orange, James then fled to France.
  • Parliment's 1689

    passage of a Bill of Rights
  • Paper Bills?

    Colonial Massachusetts became the first place in the Western world to issue paper bills to be used as money
  • outlaws

    Virginia outlaws English-Indian marriages
  • Salem witch trials

    People were not accepting of new types of people in their community.
  • Captain Thomas Philips and the slave ship

    Captain Thomas Phillips was a master of a slave ship in 1694, said “I can’t think there is any intrinsic value in one color more than another, nor that white is better than black, only we think it so because we are so.”